Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-12-23

seemed 70 imply that he was about n =
handed over to the overseer Of the 20 20 Do
Careful to pay their passage from LOO, iUos.
pool 70 New YORK, yet smuggling in ths!
SARATOGA trunk ton silk dresses from p paelr
ana . half dozen watches from Gens a,ls
Switzerland, telling the CUSTOM honsan e W.
Ger on the wharf. There il noth;n" muse ;e OFF,
trunk but wearing apparel" and nn,t "a that
IS gold piece in his hand to punctna.a ag
statement. the
Described in the text are all those
are particular never to break tha ,.s VINO
grammar, and who want all their i,n law OF
an elegant specimen Of syntax. stras;u ua8s
out all the Inaccuracies Of speech a;ng
fine sieve of literary criticism. VIZ" w.
through their convsrsation 20 slanders n al
innuendo, and profanity and falsahaaaodi
larger than whole caravan Of camoS
when they might better fracture ev esne a,
OF the language and shock intellect,naNv,
taste, and better let every verb seeh ~
VAN Tor Its nominative. and every NOM ~
for ito government, and every nreno. ucun
lose it's way in tho sentence. and po aa!N
tives and participles and prononns Oct 1 ;ee-
q grand riot worthy Of the Fourth v S.. mo
election day, than TO commit moral NJ. On
curacy. Better swallow thousands . anac-
than one camel. snats |
Such persons are also described ;n A..
text who are very much alarmed ahont az. que
small faults Of others, and have NO a1, ,ne
about their own great aranseress;onmn
There are in every community and in ev as
church watchdogs who feel called nn s.e.y
Keep their eyes on others and growl. Thev
are full OF suspicion. They wonder if icy
man is not dishonest, if that man il no.
about the other man. They arc alwa as, ,p
first to hear of anything wrong. VnItn sne
are always the first to smell carton Thes
are self-appointed detectives. / Law thy ny
down as rule without any exception. ,hat
those people who have the most fan1ts
themselves are the most merciless in Their
watching of others. From scalp Of haaa
to sole Of foot they are full Of iealons;as
and hypercriticisms. They spend Their
life in hunting for muskrats and mnl
turtles. instead Of hunting for Rocky
Mountain eagles, always for sometime
mean instead of something grand. Tbe1
look at their neighbors' imperfections
through microscope, and look at their
side down. Twenty faults Of their own do
not hurt them 90 much as one fault of
somebody else. Their neighbors' imperfec.
tons are like gnats and they strains them
out; their own imperfeotions are like camels
and they swallow them.
But lest some might think they escare
the scrutiny of the text, have to tell Won
that We all come under the divine satire
when we make the question of time more
prominent than the question of eternity. !
Come, now, let us MI go into the con.
fessional. Are not all tempted to make
the question, Where shall I live now
greater than the question. Where shall
live forever? How shall get more dollars
on thOS, Al,D
shall! lay up treasures in Heaven? the
question, How shall pay my debts 10
man? greater than the question, How
shall meet my obligations to God? the
question, How shall gain the world2
greater than the question, What if lose
my soul? the question, Why did God lie,
sin come into this world? greater than the
question, How shall 1 get it extirpated
from my nature? the question, What shall
do with the twenty, or forty, or seventy
years OF my sublunar existence? greater
than the question, What shall do with |
the millions of cycles of my post terrestrial
nifty, how vast it is! The former more in.
significant in comparison with the latter
than gnat is insignificant when compared
with camel. We lodged the text. We
said, "That doesn't mean me, and that
doesn't mean me, and with n ruinous be-
nevolence We are giving the whole sermon
away.
But let us all surrender to the charge
What an ado about things here! What
poor preparation for great eternity! AZ
though u minnow were larger than bebe-
moth, as though swallow took wider cir
cult than an albatross, as though q nettle
were taller than Lebanon cedar, as
though gnat we're greater than q camel.
rs though a minute were longer than a
century, as though time were higher,
deeper, broader than eternity. So the text
which flashed with lightning of wit as
Christ uttered it is followed by the crash
ing thunders of awful catastrophe to those
who make the questions of time greater
than the questions of the future, the Oh
coming. overshadowing future. Oh, eter-
nifty! eternity! eternity!